The Easter Blues...

I'm Stephanie and I have the Easter blues - they do say admitting it isthe first step to recovery right? I have a paid day off work and I feel pretty damn rubbish, which is odd becauseusually I’d be glad for a nice day off work. There are several reasons for thisof course, most of them just bad luck. First of all I went to the dentist todiscuss the extremely painful wisdom tooth that is currently tearing itselfthrough my poor gum. Now if your friend tells you they have a broken leg do youthen proceed to kick the leg to make sure it actually hurts? No, I’m sure younice people reading this would never do that! Yet my dentist still felt theneed to continuously poke it until I actually cried to which he responded"Flip it must hurt!" Luckily for him I’m polite and a bit of a scaredycat but it did take a lot of strength to hold myself back from screaming"No s*@t Sherlock!" FYI my tooth still hurts from the prodding!

Secondly a free day off is utterly fantastic but not so fantastic whenyour wonderful father's birthday falls on Easter Sunday and you have to ventureinto town to get the last bits of his present. This wouldn’t have been too badif the rest of the city hadn’t been off and also decided to venture into town -I have little patience and not one for shopping in crowds. Of course this was self-inflicted;clearly I was just kidding myself when I thought I could get in and out in ajiffy.

Now from the outset you really wouldn’t think I had the Easter blues as Iprobably laughed more today than I have in ages. That’s the joy of friends!After a horrid morning and an extremely busy city centre Alex came to the rescueand we were on a mission! She has a wedding to go to - but only the eveningbit. This always proves a dilemma as you need to dress more casual but howcasual can you go? Alex and I go out regularly and we have more dresses betweenus that we care to admit and we were embarrassed to see that actually none ofthe dresses we own have the correct wedding length! But then we wondered howshort can you actually go? You spend £30+ on a new dress for a wedding and ifyou wardrobe consists of dresses a hell of a lot shorter you probably won’twear it again, so we set off to find the impossible.

First we hit new look. I actually love this place. Cheap, stylish andStudent discount - what more could you want right? Yet after trying on a good20 dresses, some which were so laugh worthy it was unbelievable, we left emptyhanded! Similar situation in River Island and Jane Norman. We nearly found adress in Oasis but turns out some things defiantly look better on the hanger!So with aching feet and a rumbling tummy I was running out of patience withdress shopping, so I shipped her into Lipsy against her will. I get why shewanted to avoid the place, its crazy expensive but I was desperate! So aftertrailing the sail rails we found it!Tah Dah!

  Now this model must be scary tall cause it came just above the knee onAlex and was perfect - almost! Just when we thought we had the perfect dress wehad the size dilemma! The 10 was just not zipping up. I was physically sweatingtrying to do this and it was impossible - she blames her mother as like hermother she was blessed in the breast department! So I went hunting for a 12 butwould they have one? Of course not, they did have a 14 though which of coursezipped up like a dream but was a teeny tiny bit too big. It took me a good 20 minutesand a lot of begging but she finally bought it - I may have to learn how to sewand take it in for her mind you!

Then life looked up - a heavenly light some may say. I found a newfoundation! I have a day foundation and a night foundation which may seem a bitodd but when you work in an office full of 40 year old men who will neverappreciate a nice dewy finish you stick with a nice cheap foundation. This oneof course is rather pricy but will be perfect as my night foundation. It leavesan amazing dewy finish, has good coverage, the colour is perfect and is yellowbased!It’s Bobbi Browns Moisture Rich Foundation

So all in all it was shaping up to be a good day, I was on my way homewith my new perfect foundation, a bottle of wine and all the motivation Ineeded to write a blog post until I came home and realised I had run out ofoil. So I am writing this huddled under the duvet with a cup of peppermint teatrying to warm up.

Don't let the Easter blues happen to you! It’s pretty rubbish. But itmight shape up to be a good night. My amazing boyfriend has kindly agreed tolet me stay at his lovely warm house with movies, a takeaway and lots ofsweeties! At 20 you are allowed to eat your Easter eggs before Easter right?

Have a very blue free Easter!

Steph

xxx